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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Volker Dötsch is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has a research portfolio spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work primarily focuses on molecular biology with a significant number of publications also addressing oncology, epidemiology, cell biology, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of biological and medical fields, including the study of cancer-related molecular pathways, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, RNA modifications and cancer, receptor mechanisms and signaling, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, autophagy in disease and therapy, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent publication venues for Volker Dötsch include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 10 publications, Cell Death and Disease with 5, Nature Communications and Cell Death and Differentiation with 4 each, and Cancer Research with 3 publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Volker Dötsch address various topics in molecular and cellular biology:

  • Disease-linked TDP-43 hyperphosphorylation suppresses TDP-43 condensation and aggregation (2022, The EMBO Journal)
  • Ubiquitination regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of endoplasmic reticulum (2023, Nature)
  • Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of WD-Repeat-Containing Protein 5 (WDR5) Degraders (2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • Ubiquitination in the ERAD Process (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • The p63 C-terminus is essential for murine oocyte integrity (2021, Nature Communications)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several peers, including Christian Osterburg, Jakob Gebel, Frank Löhr, Frank Bernhard, and Stefan Knapp.

Volker Dötsch is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), reflecting involvement in the molecular biology community.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • p63, a p53 homolog at 3q27-29, encodes multiple products with transactivating, death-inducing, and dominant-negative activities.

    Annie Yang;Mourad Kaghad;Yunmei Wang;Emily Gillett

  • Phosphorylation of the Autophagy Receptor Optineurin Restricts Salmonella Growth

    Philipp Wild;Hesso Farhan;David G. McEwan;Sebastian Wagner

  • Nix is a selective autophagy receptor for mitochondrial clearance

    Ivana Novak;Vladimir Kirkin;David G McEwan;Ji Zhang

  • Interactions between autophagy receptors and ubiquitin-like proteins form the molecular basis for selective autophagy.

    Vladimir Rogov;Volker Dötsch;Terje Johansen;Vladimir Kirkin

  • Intramolecular Masking of Nuclear Import Signal on NF-AT4 by Casein Kinase I and MEKK1

    Jiangyu Zhu;Futoshi Shibasaki;Roydon Price;Jean-Claude Guillemot

  • p63 and p73, the Ancestors of p53

    V. Dötsch;F. Bernassola;D. Coutandin;E. Candi

  • Processing of multi dimensional NMR data with the new software PROSA

    Peter Güntert;Volker Dötsch;Gerhard Wider;Kurt Wüthrich

  • High level cell-free expression and specific labeling of integral membrane proteins

    Christian Klammt;Frank Löhr;Birgit Schäfer;Winfried Haase

  • Preparative scale expression of membrane proteins in Escherichia coli-based continuous exchange cell-free systems

    Daniel Schwarz;Friederike Junge;Florian Durst;Nadine Frölich

  • Loss of p63 and its microRNA-205 target results in enhanced cell migration and metastasis in prostate cancer

    Paola Tucci;Massimiliano Agostini;Francesca Grespi;Francesca Grespi;Francesca Grespi;Elke K Markert

  • Evaluation of detergents for the soluble expression of α-helical and β-barrel-type integral membrane proteins by a preparative scale individual cell-free expression system

    Christian Klammt;Daniel Schwarz;Klaus Fendler;Winfried Haase

  • Ubiquitin binding mediates the NF-κB inhibitory potential of ABIN proteins

    S. Wagner;I. Carpentier;V. Rogov;M. Kreike

  • A C-terminal inhibitory domain controls the activity of p63 by an intramolecular mechanism

    Zach Serber;Helen C. Lai;Annie Yang;Horng D. Ou

  • Phosphorylation of the mitochondrial autophagy receptor Nix enhances its interaction with LC3 proteins.

    Vladimir V. Rogov;Hironori Suzuki;Mija Marinković;Verena Lang

  • High-resolution macromolecular NMR spectroscopy inside living cells.

    Zach Serber;Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay;Richard Ledwidge;Alexander E. Kelly

  • E3-independent monoubiquitination of ubiquitin-binding proteins.

    Daniela Hoeller;Christina-Maria Hecker;Sebastian Wagner;Vladimir Rogov

  • Low-conductivity buffers for high-sensitivity NMR measurements.

    Alexander E Kelly;Horng D Ou;Richard Withers;Volker Dötsch

  • In-cell NMR spectroscopy.

    Zach Serber;Volker Dötsch

  • Solution NMR structure of proteorhodopsin.

    Sina Reckel;Daniel Gottstein;Jochen Stehle;Frank Löhr

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Löhr
Frank Löhr Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter Güntert
Peter Güntert ETH Zurich
Ivan Dikic
Ivan Dikic Goethe University Frankfurt
Gerhard Wagner
Gerhard Wagner Harvard University
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp Goethe University Frankfurt
Gerry Melino
Gerry Melino University of Rome Tor Vergata
Frank McKeon
Frank McKeon University of Houston
Soichi Wakatsuki
Soichi Wakatsuki Stanford University
Thomas Sommer
Thomas Sommer Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Gerhard Hummer
Gerhard Hummer Max Planck Society

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